Just as we were about to leave Yarmouth at 10:00 this morning, in steady rain and with the aim of reaching Dartmouth tomorrow night, we luckily discovered that a bolt had sheared attaching the alternator to the engine. Had this broken on the journey here from Dover, or later today, it would have been disastrous. That’s lucky. As it was we succeeded in finding an engineer (on Bank Holiday Monday!) who was finally able to extract the broken portion of the bolt from the engine block, fit a new bolt, and test everything OK. But all too late for us to catch the 11:00 turn of the tide to take us out past the Needles. We sail again tomorrow at 11:30 with 24 hours’ delay, hopefully to reach Dartmouth by late Wednesday afternoon.
Posted from aboard Nancy in Yarmouth harbour IOW by BH and BLB
Hello Brian, Frank and Roger,
Good to hear you made progress to the south coast with these fair easterly winds.
Pity we did´nt say goodbye last friday when we left Dover early in the morning for the trip home.
We had a good time with you all on board Nancy Blackett. So if you ever visit Holland gives us a ring or e-mail.
Please send us your e-mail so we can give you some pictures.
All the best,
Ina and Fons Neger
sailingyacht “Nica”
tel: 0031172 230999
e-mail: ajneger@casema.nl